Thursday Oct 5

NYCC Geek Rock Block
3-3:15 PM, NYCC Live Stage, booth #174
Check out live interviews with some of the top names in Geek Rock including Jonathan Coulton, Paul & Storm, and Nerf Herder
NYCC Thursday badge required
Livestream Here

Loot Crate Geek Rock Block Meet & Greet with Jonathan Coulton, Paul & Storm & Nerf Herder
3:30-4:30 PM, Loot Crate booth #536
Loot Crate brings you an hour of geeking out with the biggest names in Geek Rock: Nerf Herder (Buffy the Vampire Slayer theme), Jonathan Coulton aka “JoCo” (Portal) and musical comedy duo Paul & Storm. Come meet everyone, have something signed AND sign up for your chance to win 2 tickets to Nerf Herder in Brooklyn on 10/5 and 2 tickets to JoCo and Paul & Storm in Brooklyn on 10/6. (both 21+) Merch will also be available for sale.
NYCC Thursday badge required

Friday Oct 6

Jonathan Coulton with Paul & Storm and “Friends”
7-9 PM, Bell House, Brooklyn
Join Jonathan Coulton, Paul & Storm and their friends (if they have any, which they don’t) for a night of music, hilarity and general nerdery.
21+
NYCC badge not required
Tickets Here

Saturday Oct 7

Telling Stories with Pat Rothfuss, Jonathan Coulton, Paul & Storm, Maureen Johnson, Jean Grae & Travis McElroy
2:45-3:45 PM, Room 1A06 at Javits Center
Bestselling authors Patrick Rothfuss and Maureen Johnson; singer-songwriters Jonathan Coulton and Jean Grae; comedy/music duo Paul and Storm; and podcaster Travis McElroy discuss their strategies for storytelling, creating characters, and moving from good idea to finished thing.
NYCC Saturday badge required

We were staff writers and contributed a number of songs to the brand new season of Mystery Science Theater 3000! The entire season is available now on Netflix.

This was a total blast to be a part of, and we can’t wait for you to all see it. So stop reading this and go watch it!

Fri., 10 pm: Gonzo Quiz Show – Hyatt, Regency VI-VII
Teams of celebrity guests are led through a series of panel show games that are truly gonzo. (Paul only in this event)

Sat., 8 pm: The Deep Hurting Summertime Special – Marriott, Atrium Ballroom
Join Dr. Forrester and TV’s Frank for a truly mad evening of music, comedy, and more!

Sun., 1 pm: Jonathan Coulton & Friends – Marriott, Atrium Ballroom
A lyrical Q&A packed with JoCo and singer-songwriters Paul & Storm and Molly Lewis

Sun., 8:30 pm: Gonzo Quiz Show – Hyatt, Regency VI-VII
Teams of celebrity guests are led through a series of panel show games that are truly gonzo. (Storm only in this event)

Shows with Jonathan Coulton

Just like the old days, we’re hopping in a rental minivan and doing some live shows with our old pal Jonathan Coulton. (You know, from the Internet and video games and cruise ships and stuff?)

• JUST ADDED: Fri. May 13 – Los Angeles – Largo at the Coronet (tickets)
• Sun. May 15 – Los Angeles – Largo at the Coronet (tickets)
• Sat. June 18 – Chicago – The Vic (tickets, on sale 4/29)
• Sat. June 25 – Alexandria, VA – The Birchmere (tickets, on sale 4/29)
• Sun. June 26 – Philadelphia – World Cafe Live (tickets, on sale 4/29)

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We’re also once again coming back to San Diego, just in time for Comic-Con, for our annual variety show hosted by Adam Savage, Wil Wheaton and us.

• Thu. July 21 – San Diego – Balboa Theatre (tickets)

FuMPFest 2016

We will also be the Guests of Honor (ha!) at FuMPFest, a full weekend of comedy music in Chicago, IL this August.

• Fri-Sun, August 26-28 – Chicago – FuMPFest 2016 (tickets)

More shows to come, as well! Can you even stand the excitement? (We imagine so. Still, it’s pretty cool.)

We debuted “Westerosi Pie” at w00tstock 7.0 in 2015, and have performed it a few times live since then. But in honor of the Game of Thrones Season 6 premiere on HBO today, please enjoy this brand new recording of our re-lyric’d version of Don McLean’s “American Pie”, dedicated to George R. R. Martin and the thing he does so well—killing lots and lots and lots of characters.

“Westerosi Pie” is available many places:

• Right here on this website
• Bandcamp
• coming soon on iTunes, Amazon.com and other music stores (we’ll update this post as the links come in)

Thanks to guest musicians Jim Boggia (electric guitar) and Brendan Milburn (piano).

• Special thanks also to all the artists who contributed their work to this video:
• Lindsay Archer (lindsayarcher.com)
• @boxlessthought
• Angela Brett
• Peter Chiykowski
• Gina Mai Denn
• a hobo
• @horrorellablog
• @Jim_E_Sprocket
• Molly Lewis
• Virginia Lore
• Natalie Metzger (@Minitotoro, thefuzzyslug.com)
• @MidnightDBA
• Nora Miller (a.k.a. “Heiress to the Cheapass Games fortune”)
• Mikey Neumann
• Alex Rasey
• Tailsteak (leftoversoup.com)
• Katie Utkie
• Chris Waffle
• Angela Webber
• Marcus C. York

And extra above-and-beyond thanks to Jade Gordon (@jadegordon, patreon.com/jadegordon) and Perry Zombolas, who contributed a veritable flurry of art for this project.

We’re gearing up to release a new song—one inspired by Game of Thrones and George R. R. Martin—and want YOUR HELP to make the video, because we’re cheap and lazy, and don’t want to do it all ourselves we have the most amazing fans in the world! It’s really easy: email us a drawing of a person or people being killed. Fun, right?

A few more details before you email ’em to us:

• It doesn’t have to be great art. I mean, we absolutely will welcome great art, but we’ll equally welcome not-great art. Stick figures? Cool. MS Paint? Bring it on.
• Ideally, the person/people should be clad in a fashion that is reminiscent of Game of Thrones. Doesn’t have to be, though. Can’t draw a person in armor, monk robes, or khalssei-wear? Per the first bullet above, no problem.
• Keep it on the funny side. Blood and gore are okay, so long as it’s WACKY blood and gore. (But by no means do we require blood and gore.)
• Get creative with it, and have fun.

Not into bullet points? Here are a couple of basic examples:

You can totally do that! I mean, what’s that person riding in the second drawing? A horse? Maybe. Why is it dead, too? Dunno. Again, you’re welcome to spend more than the 20 seconds each of those took, but seriously: no pressure.

NOW LET’S DO THIS! E-mail us a digital version of your image—photo of it is fine if necessary, though a scan is better, and the higher resolution, the better—along with how you’d like to be credited. (Name, Twitter handle, website, whatever; we’ll do our best to accommodate all reasonable credit submissions.) DEADLINE: let’s say Wednesday, April 6th.

For clarity’s/officialness’ sake: your submission of your artwork to us grants us the non-exclusive use of said artwork in the above-described music video, in return for screen credit. No other compensation shall be offered or is implied. Additionally, any art you submit must be your own and you must control all rights to its use.

• Tues., Sept. 29 – World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA – http://bit.ly/NMPhilly
  NOTE: this show is FREE to attend; RSVP at the link above. RSVP soes not guarantee admittance, which will be first-come, first-served on the night of the show.
• Wed., Sept. 30 – The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA – http://bit.ly/NMBirch
• Thurs., Oct. 1 – The Bell House, Brooklyn, NY – http://bit.ly/NMBrook
• Fri., Oct. 2 – Thunder Road, Somerville, MA – http://bit.ly/NMBoston

Both events involve a lot of shows and appearances, so we figured it would be helpful (to us, if nobody else) to list them all in one place.

Here’s how our Labor Day Weekend breaks down…

Fri. Sept. 4 – Dragon Con

• 5:30 pm: Marriott Imperial Ballroom – Gonzo Quiz Show & Doin’ Improv
  (w/Scott Adsit, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Bill Corbett, Aaron Fever, Mark Gagliardi, Molly Lewis, Hal Lublin, Sylvester McCoy, Joseph Scrimshaw, The Doubleclicks and James Urbaniak)

Sat. Sept. 5 – Dragon Con

• 8 pm: Marriott Atrium Ballroom – Gonzoroo III: A Musical Quizoddysey
  (w/Scott Adsit, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Bill Corbett, Aaron Fever, Mark Gagliardi, Doc Hammer, Molly Lewis, Hal Lublin, Mike Phirman, Joseph Scrimshaw, The Doubleclicks and James Urbaniak)

Sun. Sept. 6 – Bumbershoot

• 8 pm: Comedy at the Bagley – The Shat Pack (w/Neil Hamburger, Puddles Pity Party, The Lampshades, and host Mike Lawrence)
• 10 pm: Comedy at the Playhouse (w/Sean Patton and Mike Lawrence)

Mon. Sept. 7 – Bumbershoot

• 2 pm: The Black Box Stage – P&S solo show
  6:30 pm: Comedy at the Bagley – The Nerd Show (w/Mike Lawrence, Dana Snyder and Sean Patton)
  8:30 pm: Comedy at the Playhouse (w/Mike Lawrence)

After that, we go home and sleep for a week.

See you there? We sure hope so!

Thurs. July 9

• 7 pm: w00tstock 7.0 – Balboa Theatre
  with Adam Savage, Wil Wheaton, Alton Brown, Pat Rothfuss, Phil Plait, Rhea Butcher & Uke Box Heroes. Special guests: Aisha Tyler, Molly Quinn, and WHO KNOWS ELSE?

Fri. July 10

• 12 noon: Nerdist Music Panel – Horton Grant Theatre
  with Mega Ran (SDCC badges required)
• ~7:20 pm: The BAMFest – Ruocco Park
  (SDCC badges not required)

Sat. July 11

• The Thrilling Adventure Hour: Evolved Panel – Room 23ABC
  with Ben Acker, Ben Blacker, Mark Gagliardi, Hal Lublin, Aaron Ginsburg, Molly Quinn, Richard Speight Jr., Arden Myrin, Rob Benedict and Carla Cackowski (SDCC badges required)

So for the first time, please enjoy Part One of The Paul and Storm Nondenominational Perennial Holiday Special, animated by The Brothers Chaps (of Homestar Runner fame), written by Josh A. Cagan and yours trulies, and featuring the additional voice talents of Matt Chapman and Kim Evey. (Along with a few cameos from special friends; blink and you’ll miss ’em!) Part Two will be released in much less time than it took to put together Part 1, which is to say…Soon™.

And of course special thanks to our Kickstarter backers, without whom this almost certainly would never have happened. See the video’s description on YouTube for complete credits.

BTW, if you want the songs for your very own, they’re available on our Bandcamp page.

Once again directed by Sean Becker and produced by Kim Evey, we gathered a bunch of our old friends to help us on this one: The Doubleclicks (Angela and Aubrey Webber), Todd Cooper, Matt Gourley, Jason Charles Miller, Tony Thaxton, and dancer Claudia Dolph. BOW DOWN BEFORE THE MAJESTY OF OUR COLLECTIVE HAIR!

And as always, huge thanks to our Kickstarter backers for literally making this possible.

Big thanks to Director Sean Becker and Producer Kim Evey for making this video look like a million dollars. And of course special thanks to our Kickstarter backers for providing the actual dollars, as well as everyone who gave up a Sunday afternoon to come play with us on video.

*paraphrasing

The digital version of our fifth full-length album, Ball Pit, is now available at fine music outlets everywhere (including here!) Buy it! Listen to it! Love it! And if you do, please REVIEW IT!

Buy it in the following places (among others): Right here on our site, Bandcamp, iTunes,  Amazon, and Google Play

In addition to a slew of new original songs, the album includes several existing P&S songs that hadn’t been released on CD yet (most all of which received some degree of remixing and/or re-recording), as well as a number of theme songs and other music we’ve done in association with other projects (including The Thrilling Adventure Hour, author John Scalzi, The Guild and more). Plus, it includes a six-track sampling of songlets from SoundBard, our upcoming RPG soundboard app.

It also features cover art by xkcd creator Randall Munroe (and also art from Adam Koford), and musical guest appearances by the likes of Jonathan Coulton, The Doubleclicks, Mike Phirman, Dave Hill, Jim Boggia and many more.

Special thanks to our Kickstarter backers for helping us make it the most possible amount of awesome. (By way of thanks, our backers have already received the digital version of the album. Membership has its privileges!) The physical CD will be available Soon™, for those folks who are into that sort of thing.

Have a safe and happy 4th!

Ten-Finger Johnny

(click to download, right-click then “Save As…” or however you do it on your particular machine; you should know how to do this by now!)

In keeping with the spirit of CAH’s project, and that of the game in general, we present: “Holidays Song” (Warning: VERY NSFW):

If you’re of a mind to, you can buy the song in our store or via Bandcamp.

Many thanks to Max Temkin and the folks at Cards Against Humanity; and also to video editor and all-around good guy Sean Becker.

If you are new to the Paul and Storm Music Experience™, you may also enjoy our tribute to the most neglected of not-quite-holidays, “Christmas Eve Eve” (from our 2009 It Might Be Xmas project)

Christmas Eve Eve

(clicking on the above link will take you to the song’s Bandcamp page, where you can purchase the song for any price you wish, including $0.00. Or you can just listen to the song there, or via the player below. OPTIONS!)

After much planning, deliberation, budget analysis, and (mostly) dreaming, we are finally proud to officially announce that we are finishing up our fifth album, Ball Pit, and that we’ll be making it available first to backers of our new Kickstarter campaign, which will help fund music videos, more RPG songlets (and possibly an RPG soundboard app), and a bonus album of cover song collaborations (which will be called Extra Balls, get it?) with some of our musician friends.

Full details are on the Ball Pit launch Kickstarter page, where you can help contribute RIGHT NOW! Or LATER! (Any time between now at December 14th will do just fine, thank you very much.) But the basic idea is to help us make as big a splash as possible with the new album, and give away some fun rewards in the process (including, of course, the BALL PIT and EXTRA BALLS albums). Our initial goal is $25,000, and we’ve got mayhem planned all the way up to $350,000. Basically, the more we raise, the more interesting and awesome things we can do and make for you. And while we don’t expect to raise $350,000, if we do then we’ll buy an ice cream truck and tour the country in it, giving away ice cream and guacamole along the way. (And we’ll film the whole ridiculous trek.)

But don’t just take it from us. Take it from us in this video:

Sorry.

Leg I: Wil Wheaton vs. Paul and Storm
The Northeastern US run of this double-bill was a rousing success; now, it’s Texas’ turn:

• Thu 10/17:  Austin, TX – Central Presbyterian Church – tix: http://bit.ly/WilPSAustin
• Fri 10/18:  Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s – tix: http://bit.ly/WilPSHouston
• Sun 10/20:  Dallas, TX – Granada Theater – tix: http://bit.ly/WilPSDallas

Leg II: Paul and Storm All by Their Lonesomes
A few solo shows (to the extent a duo can perform “solo”):

• Mon 11/4:  Los Angeles, CA – Largo at the Coronet – tix: http://bit.ly/PSLA2013
  
• Sat 11/9:  Santa Fe, NM – Jean Cocteau Cinema – tix: http://bit.ly/PSSantaFe2013
• Sun 11/10:  Denver, CO – The Soiled Dove Underground – tix: http://bit.ly/PSDenver13

Leg III: An Evening with Pat Rothfuss and Paul & Storm
We are joined on the final leg of our tour by bestselling fantasy author and professional beard-haver Patrick Rothfuss. Perhaps he will tell us the name of the wind!

• Mon 11/11:  Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall – tix: http://bit.ly/PRPSChicago
• Tue 11/12:  Stevens Point, WI – Central Waters Farmshed Greenhouse – info: http://bit.ly/PRPSWI2013
• Thu 11/14:  St. Paul, MN – Amsterdam Hall – tix: http://bit.ly/PRPSStPaul
  

AND SO SHALL YE! We be rolling out both of our pirate-themed songs in honor of the day. Listen to them, download them (by right-clicking or whatever on the links below), play them for your friends, BUY THEM (because Captains Paul and Storm be needin’ new blunderbusses and parrots), whatever your heart tells you is best.

The Captain’s Wife’s Lament

The Pirate’s Feast (as heard in Season Four of The Guild)

Show #138: Carl Sagan Never Did a Mic Drop

So folks in the US Northeast and in Texas will now have the chance to see the three of us on stage, singing and reading and performing what will surely be EPIC-LENGTH versions of “The Captain’s Wife’s Lament” at the following live shows:

Thu 10/3:  The Birchmere – Alexandria, VA – tix: http://bit.ly/WilPSAlex
Fri 10/4:  World Cafe Live – Philadelphia, PA – tix: http://bit.ly/WilPSPhilly
Sat 10/5:  SubCulture New York – New York, NY – tix: http://bit.ly/WilPSNYC
Sun 10/6:  Hard Rock Cafe – Boston, MA – tix: http://bit.ly/WilPSBoston

Thu 10/17:  Central Presbyterian Church – Austin, TX – tix: http://bit.ly/WilPSAustin
Fri 10/18:  Fitzgerald’s – Houston, TX – tix: http://bit.ly/WilPSHouston
Sun 10/20:  Granada Theater – Dallas, TX – tix: http://bit.ly/WilPSDallas

Tickets for many of these shows are already going fast. So don’t wait if you wanna get in on the fun.

First off, we will be sharing a merch table with several of our friends in the Marriott Marquis. Your best bet to find us there is to watch our Twitter feed for the specific times we’ll be manning the merch table.

Our “main performance” at the con will be here:

Gonzoroo II
Sat., Aug. 31, 8:30 pm – Marriott Atrium Ballroom
An evening of music, geekery, comedic delights, and surprises galore! With Bill Corbett, Molly Lewis, Sylvester McCoy, Mike Phirman, Ken Plume, Aaron Poole, Adam Savage, Joseph Scrimshaw and James Urbaniak.

In addition, we’ll be doing the following panels:

FRIDAY, AUG. 30

11:30 am – Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (on Average)
Grand Ballroom East – Hilton
Live podcast recording. Neat! Guests? Maybe!

5:30 pm – FRED Entertainment Panel-Palooza-Extrava-Thingee-a-Doodle
Grand Ballroom West – Hilton
A panel that really only exists for the sake of frolicking, bantering, and geeking about with special guests and an Irishman. Host: Ken Plume; other guests: Bill Corbett, Molly Lewis, Aaron Poole, Joseph Scrimshaw and James Urbaniak.

SATURDAY, AUG. 31

11:30 am – I Heart Video Games
Grand Salon D – Hilton
Are videogames modern man’s final art form? Our panelists write, podcast, broadcast, and sing about them…let’s talk about why! Host: Veronica Belmont.

2:30 pm – How to Do Comedy Wrong the Right Way
International North – Hyatt
Learn the dark arts of the funny in this panel about comedy theory and practical application with professional comedians and musicians. Host: Joseph Scrimshaw; other guests: Bill Corbett, Molly Lewis and Mike Phirman.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 1

4 pm – LearningTown: The Webseries: The Panel
Atlanta Ballroom – Westin
A loving look back at the first season of “LearningTown”, the 2013 web series from the “Geek & Sundry” YouTube channel. Other guests: Greg Benson, Kim Evey, Mike Phirman, James Urbaniak.

8:30 pm – Gonzo Quiz Show IV: The Quest for Quiz
Regency VI – VII – Hyatt
Teams of celebrity guests are led through a series of panel show games that you entertained. Host: Ken Plume; other guests: Bill Corbett, Molly Lewis, Sylvester McCoy, Mike Phirman, Aaron Poole, Adam Savage, Joseph Scrimshaw and James Urbaniak.

And that about covers it. If anyone shows up cosplaying as Paul and Storm, that would be awesome. Just sayin’.

*does not imply that you are actually camping

Show #137: Nerd Bagels in Hartford Center

OKAY, FINE…we deserved it. And we should also be grateful that only our guitar was harmed, considering how poorly musicians fare in ASOIAF. So enjoy our comeuppance in three-camera HD by UAT Digital Video (below), or witness it in Veronica Belmont’s scoop video. And yes, if case you were wondering, it was a “Stark”-brand guitar.

UPDATE: In the news!

Paste Magazine

The Mary Sue

i09

Huffington Post

Standard Examiner

Fantasy Magazine (Italian)

onet (Polish)

l’express (French)

Venezuela Al Dia (Spanish)

Wet Paint

Parody illustration by Len Peralta

We’re still not entirely sure how it happened, but on July 3, what had been literally a dream of ours will come true: a song we wrote will be in a Hollywood summer blockbuster movie. DESPICABLE ME 2 (!!!) to be precise. And the song is “Another Irish Drinking Song”, which we wrote back in our Da Vinci’s Notebook days.

For those familiar with Despicable Me (i.e. Just About Everyone), it will be no surprise to know that “Another Irish Drinking Song” will be sung by the Minions (!!!), the main character Gru’s energetic, adorable, gibberish-spouting and accident-prone…uh…minions. More than that we cannot say, mostly because we signed a non-disclosure agreement. But know that knowing what we know, we are SUPER-excited about how “Another Irish Drinking Song” is featured, and we are going NUTS waiting until July 3 to see it on the big screen.

You can also find the original DVN recording of “Another Irish Drinking Song” on iTunes, Amazon mp3, and other fine digital distribution networks, and can listen to on the CD “Brontosaurus“.

Special thanks to our friend Len Peralta for rendering us as Minions (no, to the best of our knowledge we’re not appearing in the movie!)